The Cabaret of Plants (eBook)

Botany and the Imagination

Richard Mabey (Autor)

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2015
ProFile (Verlag)
9781847654014 (ISBN)

Rezensionen

Mabey's book lets us see plants as subjects rather than objects, arrayed in all their colours, performing miraculous tricks, dances and acrobatics

A happy tangle of beautiful stories and studies from a career that has stepped between science and poetry ... We are lucky to have him.

Enraptured, visionary, witty and erudite

One of this century's most influential passages of natural history writing ... meticulously detailed and rhapsodically narrated ... a magnificent book.

His language is as rich as the flora he describes ... he makes his case utterly convincingly

A treat not to miss ... the prose is so gorgeous it makes you want to clap

Wonderfully thought-provoking... of all his 30-plus books this is surely among his finest, an eclectic world-roaming collection of stories... lacing colour, intimacy and emotional texture around the scaffold of hard facts.

Left me delighted - and seeing the world a little differently

Mr Mabey is the kind of person you wish you had with you on every country walk, identifying, explaining, deducing, drawing on deep knowledge lightly worn.

The finest current flowering of a great British tradition ... it makes you feel that your home is much bigger and stranger than you ever imagined and it makes you glad -- no, astounded -- to be alive.

The summation of a lifetime of looking at plants and reflecting on them ... the book reads as a happy tangle of beautiful stories and studies from a career that has stepped between science and poetry

Mabey is on eloquent form in this portrayal of plants not as dully functional components of natural capital -- a "biological proletariat" -- but as unruly, autonomous and endlessly fascinating. This engaging scientific and cultural tour takes in ice-age engravings of plant forms; ancients and giants such as bristlecone pines and baobabs; the vast biodiversity of maize (corn); and, as touched on by plant scientist Ian Baldwin (Nature 522, 282-283; 2015), Erasmus Darwin's discovery of "irritability" in Mimosa pudica more than 200 years ago.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 22.10.2015
• Verlagsort: London
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik ► Garten
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik ► Natur / Ökologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Schlagworte: Alexandra Harris • andrea wulf • Baobab • Beech • Biology • Botany • Carl Linnaeus • Charles Darwin • Cycad • dendrology • Ecology • Environment • fern • Flower • Garden • Gardening • horticulture • Jenny Uglow • John Keats • John Lewis Stempel • John Muir • John Ruskin • Kew Gardens • Literature • Margaret Mee • Mark Cocker • Natural History • oak • Orchid • Patrick Barkham • plants • Robert Macfarlane • roger deakin • Romanticism • Romantic Poets • Samuel Coleridge • Science • Trees • William Wordsworth • yew
• ISBN-13: 9781847654014 / 9781847654014